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8 color plates, 90 b/w illustrations Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-Portrait as Soldier (1915) is one of the best-known self-portraits of the modern classical period. With its sharp foreground focus on the uniformed artist's bloody amputated hand, the painting has long been interpreted as a vehement protest against war, specifically World War I and Kirchner's participation in it. Peter Springer's innovative study presents a convincing alternative reading of Kirchner's epochal work. Springer sees in it, not a harsh condemnation of militarism, but a marked ambivalence in the artist's attitude toward war. This new reading of the painting grows out of Springer's assessment of its imagery in relation to patronage, gender relations, and national identity--and particularly to propaganda and satire. Using Kirchner's letters and other documentation, much of it only recently available, Springer reconstructs the years of Kirchner's military service. He juxtaposes a range of visual contexts that include traditions of self-portraiture, depictions of prosthetic devices, and propaganda accounts of German soldiers hacking off the hands of Belgian and French children. He then considers Kirchner in relation to Albrecht Dürer and to theoretical arguments on the relative dominance of hand and mind in the pictorial arts that invoke the image of "Raphael without hands." Nearly 100 illustrations superbly complement the text. ... Read more

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The German-born expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) first came to Davos in 1917 on a rest cure. His body and mind devastated by the war, mountain life promised recovery and proved extremely fruitful artistically. If at first Kirchner met his new environment with the same nervous brushstrokes and perspectivist escalations found in his Berlin street scenes, his inner turmoil soon subsided, producing calmer and stronger bands of pigment and later an exalted experience of nature. New imagery resulted as well, going beyond Kirchner's primary focus on landscapes to include interiors and a series of self-portraits and figure paintings of rural neighbors. With its selection of paintings, works on paper, sculptures, photographs and tapestry from European and American private collections, this monograph shows how Kirchner, after Segantini and Hodler, became the third great painter of the Alps. Life in the Mountains finishes with works from the years 1925-26, when Kirchner returned to Germany, leaving his union with the natural life behind. Essays by Gottfried Boehm, Lucius Grisebach, Bernhard Mendes Bürgi, Birgit Gudat, Wolfgang Henze, and Michael F. Zimmermann. Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in./288 pgs / 126 color 24 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20210 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 553 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tres sucesos sintomticos: Amrica Latina: algo nuevo se est gestando. (Internacionales).(cumbre del Grupo de Ro, de empresarios latinoamericanos en Mxico, investidura del presidente argentino Nstor Kirchner )
Author: Joaqun Prez Snchez
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 49Issue: 2607Page: 55(1)

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on July 20, 2003. The length of the article is 618 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Argentina: no basta, pero es un buen comienzo. (Internacionales).(reformas polticas, econmicas y sociales del presidente Nstor Kirchner )
Author: Nils Castro
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: July 20, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 50Issue: 2614Page: 59(1)

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on July 11, 2004. The length of the article is 549 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Frente a nuevos embates: Kircher.(oposicin a mandato del presidente argentino, Nstor Kirchner)
Author: Juan Barrera Barrera
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: July 11, 2004
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 51Issue: 2665Page: 56(2)

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on May 16, 2003. The length of the article is 912 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Kirchner, a un paso de la Casa Rosada: Nestor Kirchner, el candidato del saliente Eduardo Duhalde, tiene todo a su favor para conquistar la Casa Rosada en la segunda vuelta de las presidenciales argentinas. Carlos Menem baraja la posibilidad de retirarse para restarle legitimidad al futuro Gobierno. (Iberoamerica: Argentina).
Author: Alejandro Rodriguez Diez
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 16, 2003
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 40(2)

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on July 27, 2003. The length of the article is 547 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Luz verde para juzgar a militares: Kirchner. (Internacionales).
Author: Joaqun Prez Snchez
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: July 27, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 50Issue: 2615Page: 59(1)

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on May 18, 2003. The length of the article is 2180 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Kirchner, un presidente atpico. (Internacional).(Nstor Kirchner, presidente electo de Argentina )
Author: Marcelo Izquierdo
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 18, 2003
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 51(3)

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on June 13, 2003. The length of the article is 874 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El eje de los populistas: con Kirchner en Argentina se termino de consolidar un bloque politico en el Cono Sur. Con muchos planteamientos de izquierdas y algunos de derechas, el populismo suramericano afronta a golpe de unificacion una crisis profundamente arraigada. (Iberoamerica: politica).(Nestor Kirchner, presidente de Argentina )
Author: Alejandro Rodriguez Diez
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 13, 2003
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 40(2)

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